Pure. Natural. Heat.
SaunaRay’s unique ceramic elements are hand made with natural infrared-reflective minerals that make it feel like you’re lying on a beach. Let us help bring the beach into your home and turn your home into a spa.
Welcome to SaunaRay Infrared Saunas
Every SaunaRay sauna is made by hand, in Collingwood, Ontario, with a vision for high function and exceptional beauty. We are North America’s only 100% Pure and Natural infrared sauna company.
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Our Saunas
Turn your home into a spa with our pre-fabricated saunas designed to fit any space.
SR1
One Person
We call this the “Condo” sauna because you can literally put it into a closet. It was featured in the Toronto Star Condo Living section as one of the greatest additions to a condo for life in a big city.
SR2
Two Person
We call this the “Condo” sauna because you can literally put it into a closet. It was featured in the Toronto Star Condo Living section as one of the greatest additions to a condo for life in a big city.
SR3
Luxury Size
We call this the “Condo” sauna because you can literally put it into a closet. It was featured in the Toronto Star Condo Living section as one of the greatest additions to a condo for life in a big city.
SR4
Family Size
We call this the “Condo” sauna because you can literally put it into a closet. It was featured in the Toronto Star Condo Living section as one of the greatest additions to a condo for life in a big city.
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Why Choose SaunaRay?
Every SaunaRay unit is handcrafted in our toxin-free factory. Each part is carefully selected and assembled with expert precision. Unlike cheaper alternatives, SaunaRay will never use composite materials that may contain formaldehyde, toxic glue, chemical fire retardants, plastic or fibreglass heaters. SaunaRay uses only natural and solid Ontario Basswood. We carve each piece to perfection and assemble your sauna the old fashioned way, one piece at a time. We finish your sauna by hand with pure Canadian Beeswax. Every SaunaRay unit is a work of high function and fine beauty.
Why Choose SaunaRay?
Not Rebranded. Not Mass-Produced
Boutique-built in Canada. Only 500 saunas per year. Most saunas are mass-produced overseas and rebranded. We build in small batches, to exact standards, in a toxin-free environment.
100% Canadian Basswood
Hand-selected. Local. Sustainable. The least allergenic wood in North America, grown within 100 miles of our factory. No chemical treatment. No fumigation. No shortcuts.
Truly Toxin-Free Construction
No glue. No chemicals. Natural materials only. Solid wood assembly, pure ceramic infrared heaters, stainless steel, locally made tempered glass, and a hand-rubbed Canadian beeswax finish.
World-Leading Low EMF
0.2 milliGauss — up to 80× lower than common brands. Engineered for safety and comfort, even for people with electrical sensitivities.
Infrared Saunas Made In Canada
Our infrared saunas are made 100% on
Canadian soil with a lifetime guarantee.
Trusted by Professionals
As a result of almost two decades devoted to purity, SaunaRay units are trusted by medical offices, colleges of naturopathic medicine from coast to coast, NHL hockey training facilities, and even the Canadian Armed Forces.
Spas and Wellness Centres
Professional Training
Chiropractors & Massage Therapists
Dentists
Medical Doctors
Naturopathic Doctors
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is an infrared sauna different than a “regular sauna?"
“Regular” saunas are the European kinds that get super hot, so it’s hard to breathe. SaunaRay infrared saunas use ceramic heated elements to gently warm your skin to encourage sweat in a warm environment where it’s easy to breathe normally.
The goal of any sauna is to make you sweat. Your high-temperature sauna does this by super-heating the air so that when you breathe your body’s autonomic nerve is triggered. This nerve controls your body temperature. When your body’s autonomic nerve is triggered, this makes your blood pressure and heart rate increase to pump blood to your extremities to cool off your organs. The sweat is triggered as a cooling mechanism.
SaunaRay’s infrared saunas cause you to sweat without raising your core temperature. The gentle, but powerful, infrared heat warms your skin and triggers the sweat glands before your core body temperature rises. You go inside at 27-28C (82-84F) instead of 60-80C, like in the wood-fired sauna. You can breathe normally in the warm air as the temperature slowly rises. By the time it gets to about 40C (105F), you are usually soaked with sweat and ready to come out. This means your body temp remains normal, and there is no recovery period. You don’t feel tired or knocked out by the heat.
Why choose an infrared sauna?
Infrared saunas are a revolution in sauna therapy.
In the past, building a sauna in your home involved a full construction crew. You’d need to hire a carpenter, an electrician and a plumber. By the time it was installed, you were already heavily invested in labour and material costs. They consumed a lot of expensive electricity in order to superheat the air. To add insult to injury, that super hot air makes it difficult to breathe inside.
Today you can buy an infrared sauna that is:
1) Pre-built and ready to assemble in one hour – in any room of your home.
2) Ready to plug into any existing outlet in your house.
3) Able to sit on any floor surface, even carpet.
4) Easily installed in your bathroom or bedroom without calling an electrician, a plumber, or a carpenter.
What makes a SaunaRay infrared sauna special?
In short, it’s the way it’s built. The cabinet is built with solid wood and no toxic glues. Our competitors are often using cheap plywood and tons of glue.
Why is low heat better than high heat to induce sweat?
Sweating causes the excretion of toxic metals and complex chemicals like pesticides, plasticizers, and fire retardant chemicals that are ubiquitous in our environment but not easily excreted from the body. Their build-up can cause disease over time.
SaunaRay’s low-heat infrared systems allow you to sweat profusely without stressing your core body temp or triggering a reaction.
Can I put your saunas on the carpet?
Most of our saunas can plug into any outlet in the house and can even be placed in a closet if you like. They can sit on any floor surface, just like a cabinet or a clothing wardrobe, because there is no need for drains or vents. Our bigger units require a 220-volt outlet but can still sit on any floor surface – even your carpet!
Is it easy to breathe in an infrared sauna?
Medical grade infrared saunas employ ceramic elements so they don’t overheat the air. When you’re sitting inside an infrared sauna, taking a breath is comfortable – not uncomfortable and sort of stressful.
In a medical-grade infrared sauna, the ceramic elements emit heat in the infrared spectrum. Your body loves this heat. Humans absorb heat in the infrared spectrum, like the sun’s heat, naturally and very efficiently. Your skin absorbs the heat naturally and quickly and the sweat glands just under the surface activate and start pushing out sweat without causing your heart to race, or your blood temperature to rise. It’s a much lower-stress way to detox.
Where did the original saunas come from?
For thousands of years, humans have relied on artificially heated environments as a weekly or even daily method of cleaning themselves. Native North Americans say that from the beginning of time they have been employing the “sweat lodge” by heating rocks placed inside a small tent while people sit in a circle around the rocks and pray.
There are many historical drawings that pre-date photography depicting saunas, steam rooms and hot baths going back centuries. They were used by advanced cultures including the Greeks and the Romans as a central part of mind, body, and spiritual and social wellness.
How did the modern sauna come to be?
In 1893, at the famous Chicago World’s Fair, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg introduced an “electric light bath”. Dr. Kellogg was one of the first environmental physicians who promoted excellent health as a daily approach to avoiding disease.
The use of infrared heat was refined decades later in Japan during the 1970s to keep newborns warm without stifling them with blankets. They developed ceramic heating systems for babies because humans absorb infrared heat which is reflected by ceramic, just like beach sand. This technology is still used today in all northern climates throughout North America, Europe and Asia, in all hospitals where children are born.
Why are far infrared saunas so popular now?
In the 1990s, the Mayo Clinic in the United States began publishing the novel work of doctors treating heart patients by inducing sweating once a day. They used ceramic elements in a sauna room to create mild infrared heat. The ceramic heaters coaxed a profuse sweat without raising their core temperature and triggering their heart response. The results were almost miraculous. All participants improved and reversed their decline.
Since this type of sauna does not require plumbing or ventilation, it was easy to adopt for household use. You sweat over time, without raising your blood temperature, and can recover quickly without feeling overheated for hours after leaving the sauna.
What is a near infrared sauna?
In the early 2000s scientists observed that frequencies generated in the near infrared range had some effect on cellular regeneration. It is known that the more natural elements such as ceramic will emit a natural full spectrum of infrared heat in the near, mid and far infrared ranges simultaneously.
In 2013 Professor Gerald Pollack from the University of Washington wrote a groundbreaking book called The Fourth Phase of Water, documenting a previously unrecognized phase of water. He isolated the most potentially activating frequency for water as being in the near infrared range, further explaining the gentle power of infrared saunas. Being in a ceramic-heated medical-grade sauna feels like being at the beach, absorbing the heat of the sun – with all of the goodness and none of the danger from Ultra Violet (UV) light. Infrared saunas emit zero UV light.